A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

A Visit from the Goon Squad

By Jennifer Egan

  • Release Date: 2010-06-08
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4
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From 1,559 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. 

“Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review

Reviews

  • An excellent read

    5
    By tcanread
    This book was fantastic. The stories fit together in such a clever way, the character development is notable and the entire book was very enjoyable. Highly recommend.
  • What a Great Introduction to Egan’s Writing

    5
    By Mpohara
    This poignant, beautifully written novel took me back to my youth and then thrust me back to the present because, after all, I grew up.
  • Great

    5
    By cpowell99998
    Very good
  • Amazing writing and characters

    4
    By Auggie's Man
    Loved this book. As I typically read at bedtime it took a lot to put it aside and actually get sleep!
  • Terrible from beginning to end

    1
    By jess hays
    Possibly the most terrible book I’ve ever forced myself to finish
  • A visit from the goon squad

    5
    By Eva Palomares
    Remarkable! Intense! Full of surprises.
  • A worthy read.

    5
    By Hitchens76
    A rewarding read. Accessible, thoughtful, cleverly constructed and heartfelt.
  • One of my favorites

    5
    By brunaalice
    Read this a few years back, and I still think of this book fondly. I loved how the story was told through different characters who were all somehow interconnected.
  • Moio

    4
    By ' Tj
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  • Tasteless, and disturbingly detached

    1
    By ClareCece
    Horrible, boring book. I finished the entire book. I kept waiting for some kind of redemption from the insensitive detachment to the mild traumas the characters were experiencing, and it never came. As a rape survivor, I find the chapter coming from the rapists point of view to be particularly disturbing and tasteless. Also the young teenage girls being drugged and abused by an old guy (again told from his perspective) was kind of revolting.

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